MAKE A MEME View Large Image Women Grinding Paint in Calcutta (c. 1845) - Daguerreotype medium.jpg en Although the original paper mat on the verso of this daguerreotype is inscribed Women Grinding Paint the subjects could be performing one of any number of tasks ...
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Keywords: Women Grinding Paint in Calcutta (c. 1845) - Daguerreotype medium.jpg en Although the original paper mat on the verso of this daguerreotype is inscribed Women Grinding Paint the subjects could be performing one of any number of tasks grinding indigo for example or beetlenut or spices for curry All that is certain is that the man in the turban to the right is a follower of the god Shiva the sustainer-dissolver of the universe Holy ash or bhasma marks his forehead while around his neck is a mala of rudraksha beads sacred to Shiva It seems likely that the photographer moved the group outside from a workshop nearby carefully posing them in the shaft of sunlight that emerged through the slatted canopy The setting--a quiet alley free of human animal or commercial distractions--is artificial even for India in the 1840s The isolation of the figures however together with the respectful low position of the camera was employed by the photographer to great advantage 1845 https //2 bp blogspot com/-dPWTWvLmvBM/UYCiRBdgNvI/AAAAAAAAW1g/0iqbRYELHj8/s1600/Women+Grinding+Paint+-+Calcutta+c1845 jpg author Custom license marker 2014 09 07 PD-old-100-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Kolkata in the 1840s
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